By Victor Okoye
Abuja, June 17, 2022 (NAN) The National Industrial Safety Council of Nigeria (NISCN) have urged political parties and their aspirants to ensure that they conduct their activities in a manner that fosters safety of citizens and properties in the country.
Dr Festus Daniel, the National President, NISCN who made the remarks in a statement on Friday
charged politicians and their followers to conduct their campaigns with a high sense of maturity and dignity.
“As we move into the general election campaign season, we must ensure we maintain a mature attitude to campaigning and ultimately, voting.
“Political activities must not be conducted in a manner that bridges the peaceful existence of the citizens, particularly in a way that disrupts economic activities in the country.
“We must never see it as a ‘do or die affair and must all remember that democracy is all about the will of the majority. There must be winners and losers.
“Whoever emerges as president will lead the entire country so no point for the infighting of words and ethnicity in a democratic despensation,” he said.
Daniel also employed the youths not to yield to the ploy of distructive ventures to advance any course that deviates from building national unity.
He stressed that any infrastructure destroyed in the process was a deficit to the nation.
The President also lamented on the alarming level of insecurity in the country, adding that it not only negatively impacted on national development, but equally affected the quality of human life.
“Let me use this opportunity to urge the youths not to hobnob with the enemies of the state and allow themselves to be used by agents of destruction.
“We must not allow the Nigerian elite to hijack the future of Nigerian youths.
“These are defining and very sensitive times in the nation and we must be careful and we must therefore refuse to be used to destabilise the country.
“Nigerian youths must not allow themselves to be used as tools in fighting selfish and ambiguous propagandas,” he said. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
